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...president has been elected, Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert would be sworn in as president...
...primarily about its own problems for a while. The markets love gridlock, and for a while the Endless Election only confirms that next year, Washington will be seized with it. But if the thing takes another turn, one that starts to touch seriously on faithless electors and President Dennis Hastert, it will get ugly...
...GOPers in Congress tied to their desks instead of getting out the vote at home. And the GOP, after weeks of dutiful negotiating, has decided to take him up on his offer for a fight. "We're not going to get pushed out of town with a bad deal," Hastert told reporters. "You call it a stalemate. I call it fighting for the American people to get good legislation for them...
...That's what Gore calls it too. Except that the reason DeLay and Hastert killed the deal (a repetitive-stress-syndrome OSHA regulation measure) was definitely on behalf of business - and is one of the things that tend to make the GOP look mean-spirited once Clinton gets to spinning...
...knowledge, it's particularly not hurting Republican candidates," said Alaska's Sen. Ted Stevens, one of the GOP negotiators whom Hastert and DeLay overruled. "They tell me their numbers have come...